The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 20 May 2016.Entry listStart list
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordAaron Peirsol1:51.92Rome31 July 2009European recordEvgeny Rylov1:54.21Moscow21 April 2016Championship recordRadosław Kawęcki1:55.28Debrecen26 May 2012
Results Heats The heats were held on 20 May at 10:00.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 6 Dávid Földházi 1:57.69 Q 2 5 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:58.41 Q 3 4 4 Yakov Toumarkin 1:58.44 Q 4 5 3 Gábor Balog 1:58.70 Q 5 5 5 Luke Greenbank 1:58.81 Q 6 3 4 Danas Rapšys 1:58.95 Q 7 4 3 Christopher Ciccarese 1:59.08 Q 8 5 2 Ádám Telegdy 1:59.10 9 4 5 Luca Mencarini 1:59.19 Q 10 4 6 Balázs Zámbó 1:59.34 11 3 6 Benjamin Stasiulis 2:00.17 Q 12 3 7 Roman Dmitriyev 2:00.42 Q 13 3 5 Grigory Tarasevich 2:00.45 Q 14 4 8 Petter Fredriksson 2:00.91 Q 15 3 8 Kristian Kron 2:01.01 Q 16 2 9 Robert Glință 2:01.09 Q 17 3 3 Apostolos Christou 2:01.14 Q 18 4 2 Mattias Carlsson 2:01.24 19 4 1 Anton Loncar 2:01.47 Q 20 1 3 Pavel Janeček 2:01.64 21 2 5 Teo Kolonić 2:01.73 22 3 0 Daniel Martin 2:01.82 23 4 0 Tomáš Franta 2:01.96 24 5 1 Nils Van Audekerke 2:02.07 25 2 1 Max Litchfield 2:02.29 26 5 9 Marko Krce Rabar 2:02.33 27 5 0 Yuval Safra 2:02.39 28 4 9 Arthur Polyak 2:02.59 29 2 2 Ege Başer 2:02.95 30 3 9 Boris Kirillov 2:03.32 31 4 7 Lander Hendrickx 2:03.47 32 5 7 David Gamburg 2:03.71 33 2 7 Ģirts Feldbergs 2:03.94 34 3 1 Axel Pettersson 2:03.96 35 2 4 Joan Lluís Pons 2:04.29 36 2 6 Gabriel Lopes 2:04.33 37 2 8 Gytis Stankevičius 2:04.84 38 1 6 Marcin Tarczyński 2:04.89 39 1 4 Ergecan Gezmiş 2:05.55 40 2 0 Michail Kontizas 2:06.31 41 1 5 Andrei Gussev 2:10.49 2 2 Carl-Louis Schwarz 3 2 Joseph Hulme 5 8 Nils Liess
Semifinals The semifinals were held on 20 May at 19:08.Semifinals results
Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Danas Rapšys 1:57.35 Q 2 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.39 Q 3 5 Gábor Balog 1:59.04 Q 4 6 Luca Mencarini 1:59.05 Q 5 2 Roman Dmitriyev 1:59.53 6 1 Robert Glință 2:00.91 7 8 Anton Loncar 2:01.80 8 7 Petter Fredriksson 2:02.13
Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 Apostolos Christou 1:57.41 Q 2 5 Yakov Toumarkin 1:57.95 Q 3 6 Christopher Ciccarese 1:58.50 Q 4 7 Grigory Tarasevich 1:58.55 Q 5 3 Luke Greenbank 1:59.21 6 4 Dávid Földházi 1:59.48 7 2 Benjamin Stasiulis 2:00.45 8 1 Kristian Kron 2:00.90
Final The final was on 21 May at 17:18.Final results
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:55.98 6 Yakov Toumarkin 1:56.97 4 Danas Rapšys 1:57.22 4 1 Gábor Balog 1:58.66 5 3 Apostolos Christou 1:58.87 6 7 Grigory Tarasevich 1:59.31 7 2 Christopher Ciccarese 1:59.45 8 8 Luca Mencarini 2:02.04
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